Sociological Association of Ireland Annual Postgraduate Conference Saturday 19 November 2016 Iontas Building, North Campus, Maynooth University General Information: You can register for the conference here. In order to attend the conference you must be a current member of the SAI. You can join the association here.
09.30-10.00 Registration 10.00 11.30 Parallel Sessions 1.1 Work and professions (Room 0.33) Chair: Paul Ryan Amelia Dulee-Kinsolving (Maynooth University): Pathways to secure jobs?: Stakeholder perceptions of labour market transitions among young interns in the Irish and Spanish ICT sectors Patrick Gallagher (Maynooth University): Varieties of Financialised Banking in Ireland and Denmark Lillian Byrne-Lancaster (IT Carlow): Constructs of professions related to Social Care Work 1.2 Arts and Culture (Room 0.15) Chair: Colin Coulter Giulia Rossetti (Dublin Institute of Technology): Adult Individual Cultural Capital Acquisition in Relation to Taste and Participation: A Study of Literary Festivals Mark Cronin (University College London): Professionals in the popular music world with no formal training: An interview study set in the Irish city of Cork Michael McLoughlin (University College Dublin): Future commemoration: remembering community action through art making and audio cartography 2
1.3. Safe spaces (Room 0.32) Chair: Nigel Connor Joshua D. Savage (Maynooth University): Creating Safe Spaces for Creative Diversity: Challenges and Interventions. Cristín O Rourke (Maynooth University): The Privacy Shield and the Surveillance Society: An Analysis of Key Actors and Discourses Using Twitter Ellen Whelan (Trinity College Dublin): How do you navigate that? Exploring student views of sexual consent workshops. 11.30-12.00 Coffee 12.00-13.00 Plenary Session (Room 0.32) Professor Jane Gray (Maynooth University) will talk about her research on the life courses of Irish families. 13.00-13.30 Lunch (included in the conference fee) 13.30 15.00 Parallel sessions 2.1 Ethnicity and Race I (Room 0.33) Chair: Lucy Michael Aine Cleary (University of Limerick): A tale of two systems: The Irish Education system from the perspective of Irish Traveller parents. 3
Paul O Dwyer (Waterford Institute of Technology): An exploration of Institutional Racism in the Irish Workplace 2.2 Life and Debt in Austerity Ireland (Room 2.25) Chair: Maighread Tobin Philip Finn (Maynooth University): Ireland's emerging activation regime what hope for resistance? Kenny Doyle (Waterford Institute of Technology): Assessing Ireland s Pathways to Work 2.3 Gender, Drugs, Shame (Room 0.15) Chair: Cristín O Rourke Richard Healy (Maynooth University): The Impact of the Social Opprobrium of Opioid Misusers on Irish Drug Policy. Clay Darcy (University College Dublin): Drug Taking, Masculinities and Men s Quest for Pleasure and Excitement Carol Ballantine (NUI Galway): How can an understanding of stigma and shame contribute to our understanding of gender based violence? 2.4 Remembering and forgetting (Room 0.32) Chair: Aphra Kerr Áine Mc Adam (Maynooth University): A Century as a Republic: Remembered or Imagined Liam Farrell (National University of Ireland, Galway): Reflections on critical social theory s possible contribution to our understanding of the 1916 Easter Rising: discourse, hegemony and social change. Lynsey Kavanagh (Maynooth University): Collecting and Analyzing Memories Narratively: Methodological Considerations and Challenges 4
15.00 16.00 Plenary Session (Room 0.32) Dr Paul Ryan (Maynooth University) will talk about his research on monetized sexual relations online. 16.00 16.30 Coffee 16.30 18.00 Parallel Sessions 3.1 Ethnicity and Race II (Room 0.15) Chair: Lucy Michael Ewa Malczuk (Waterford Institute of Technology): Polish Immigrants in Ireland: Accent and the Dynamics of Social Mobility Bobby O Keeffe (Trinity College Dublin): Negotiating Space: Nigerian Taxi Drivers in Dublin Washington Marovatsanga (NUI Galway): Social Work, Race/Ethnicity, Notions of Cultural Competence: Potential Theoretical Resources 3.2 Millennial matters (Room 0.32) Chair: Colin Coulter Glenn Doyle (Dublin City University): The Attitudes towards the Quotidian Photographing of Children and their Impact upon the practices of photographing and sharing Images of Children. Aisling O Connor (Trinity College Dublin): I am a Millennial... What am I? Exploring Millennials Using Constructivist Grounded Theory 5
3.3. Gender, Precarity & Violence (Room 0.33) Chair: Caitríona Fitzgerald Sarah Kelleher (Liverpool John Moores University): Defining the Right Partner for Procreation Purposes: Contemporary Irish Male s Perspectives Aimée Scanlon (Mary Immaculate College, Limerick): Negotiating Gender and Class Identity in an Era of Socio-Economic Precarity : A Psychosocial Exploration of Personal Life Narrative and Consumption of Media Texts Maria Ronan (Waterford Institute of Technology): 'Taoiseach Enda Kenny's Apology Speech to the Magdalene Women'. 3.4 Open stream (Room 2.25) Chair: Paul Ryan Hazel O Brien (Waterford Institute of Technology): Put Your Shoulder to the Wheel : Congregational Identity in two Mormon Congregations in Ireland Tara-Marie McAssey (Maynooth University): Deconstructing and reconstructing material culture: the movement of pre-loved goods and the transmutation of value in a Dublin flea-market. Ivan Privalko (Maynooth University): Returns on Mobility in the UK: Gender or Skill Differences? 18.00 Drinks Reception 6